I think maybe you are coming into question here to some degree...
You have to wonder what reality this fellow inhabits. Zawahiri came out today and said that Iraq is the central front in the war against Al Qaeda. And yet freedomdefender wants to abandon that front because the war is taking too long. Apparently, he would like the war to end sooner with us suffering more casualties because that is what happened in ‘good’ wars like WII and the Civil War.